Recently I've found some damn cheap Belgian stuff, figured I'd show it here.

First a Gentex TBH-II helmet, probably not a Belgian contracted one but the Para/Cdo's use them, so I put the relevant cover on it.

Flecktarn parka and a pouch that my vest set didn't have yet, so now I think I have all, and then an older jigsaw hood.

An Arktis advanced chestrig with a severed backstrap (easy fix), Polish made modern armor cover, 2 different ripstop helmet covers (different loops), and 2 helmet nets which are most likely also Belgian (1 painted over and 1 of different construction).

And a tactical vest for a friend, because I already had one, this one just has a molten zipper, but was the least destroyed one in a crate, most others had the back adjustment straps and buckles cut.

I'm also curious about the details of the ripstop helmet covers. I don't have one in my collection yet.

The light weight body armor cover is interesting. Do you know any history about its use?

Pity that the LBVs were in such poor condition. The Cordura material doesn't seem to hold camouflage colors for very long under sun and use conditions. I acquired a brand new one during the first year of issue and I paid a lot of money for it, but I'm happy I did!

Yeah the black elastic is just badly sewn to the cover. There were also quite a few helmet nets with the same elastic threaded through it.It seems to be a quite popular material to use, I've also seen it in old photos.

And Steve, there were more ripstop covers there, if you'd like I could take one from there whenever I return, though it may take a while.

I don't know a lot about the lightweight armor, nly that it also exists in Desert color, and that it appears in photos from Afghanistan, andit seems to be only worn by Para/Cdo.

And yes there might be some more relatively intact vests in the crate, but I found what I needed/wanted so I stopped digging. I just had thebackstrap of the Arktis rig reattached again today, which had been pulled loose from one side, and it works again. Afterwards I noticed someonemight have repaired the vest before, as 1 shoulderstrap is attached inside out

2 Basic pouches that both have the ladder buckle attached the wrong way around, shovelpouch which is most likely made of oldBritish material, modified canteen pouch, Jigsaw camo tentpole pouch.

It seems normal to screw up on making Belgian basic pouches it seems, 3 of my 4 pouches have mistakes.On my other pouch the tab fastening the ladder buckle to the pouch is entirely sewn down, no downward pass-through for the brace, so whoever used it had to resort to cutting slits into the pouch body to allow the strap material to go down.

I dug out my helmet cover box (thankfully they pack better than winter coats) and found that I have an unissued ripstop helmet cover already. This is the problem with my collection... so many things that I not only forgot I have one, I forgot I've seen one before! That's not a good sign about either the size of my collection or my memory

And yes it's KLu, it's for he M93 type harness in KLu greygreen. I don't think anyone over here has ever seen a magpouch, so when I saw this destroyed one I threw it in my pile and got it for free.

The harness and backpacks show up quite rarely, but anything else is pretty much nonexistent.

Also, in that thread you call the net a field scarf, which it was indeed used for sometimes, but officially it's a faceveil.And about the webbing, the KLu marked belt could be late 80's-early 90's from after the KLu went to green gear.And 1 of your webbing braces in the webbing pic is Dutch marked but actually a mid-late WW2 British one, most likely made by MeCo judging by it's folding-inward construction, which was an economy measure. Many WW2 things were later stamped with MvO markings.

And you don't have any outer mittens yet? Or have you found some in the meantime.Otherwise I have a spare set

I have seen the backpacks from time to time, but never any other parts in grey/green.

The items shown in that thread with the bandage all came in one plunjebaal, apparently from one man (I think that the latest item with a date is 1969 or so). So the belt remains a bit of a mystery. Yes, one of the braces is certainly British-made. I can't recall off the top of my head if ME Co made braces in that particular shape, but I have quite a lot of clearly marked WE 37 braces that I could compare it to. (One item from that group which is not shown in the thread is the German-type folding shovel.)

Yes, I have several pairs of outer mitten shells, but for some reason none were included in that particular group. The mitten shells seem to turn up in surplus stores over here again and again over the years.

VERY nicely badged!!! I'm going to start a separate thread about this topic, so please visit and post there

Belgian desert name tapes are so rare I bought a used jacket from our friend in Thailand because it had the name still on it. Oh, and he also had a KAZ57 jacket with the rifle strap role still attached to the shoulder, so I got two things I've been looking for at one time

Yes, an air force helmet for sure. The arrow marking inside the shell signifies Belgian air force property. On later manufacture air force helmets, the arrow is stamped into the rim next to the manufacturer/date.

From what I have seen, earlier air force helmets and liners are painted grey, while later ones are light blue. Eventually the plastic liner was also made in light blue.

The tag on the pouch looks like a QM property tag. I find similar tags on Canadian items sometimes.